You're right about that. We are currently watching a nation so overwhelmed by its own sudden people power and youth, they fail to even consider that
this has all happened before, and before that and before that. Nothing is really a new idea in the world, and this whole thing is shocking for the
modern man because modern man has been trained from early school to view other systems with the passing of time but their own system as the rock of
granite all others are judged by.

The extremes of politics swing far left and they swing far right. The nation survived Madison, Jackson, Lincoln, Wilson and Nixon. It will survive
this too. The nation has a well established historical pattern though. It will run off to a far side for awhile, but over-compensate when it has a
correction.

Clinton brought Bush in a nation sick of scandal. Bush brought the best hope a war weary nation saw for change. What Obama leads to is what scares me,
and god help us all if it's an extreme right wing leader. The left hasn't much further left it can go. A radical leader from the right has the whole
trip BACK to center before even starting back up their own version of the wrong path.

I don't think in terms of Hitler. He was a one-off psychopath in a unique set of circumstances. Everything from the Weimar economy to the leader he
replaced with the quirky nature of 1930's German law on their leader's limits or lack of them when he took a title which didn't fit to the laws. He
also needed his band of cronies as bad or worse than he ever was.

What I think America faces more of a threat from is the Religious Reich, as I've heard it called. That has nothing to do with people if Faith or
Religion as it exists as a part of people's lives anymore than Christian Identity had anything in common with a main stream Christian or Church.

There are people who believe we are in or near the end times though, and measures need to be taken opposite from Obama but no less reckless and
extreme in that other direction to prepare.

Here is to hoping for what we won't get. A moderate leader with intelligence in their own right and the ambition to make use of it.

This content community relies on user-generated content from our member contributors. The opinions of our members are not those of site ownership who maintains strict editorial agnosticism and simply provides a collaborative venue for free expression.